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WA grants major planning exemptions for towers

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The West Australian government has granted significant new planning exemptions for telecommunications equipment ahead of the rollout of the NBN’s multi-technology mix network.

Read more: http://www.itnews.com.au/news/wa-grants ... ers-409017
But importantly for us, for the first time the policy explicitly mentions amateur radio.

http://www.planning.wa.gov.au/dop_pub_p ... ucture.pdf
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Re: WA grants major planning exemptions for towers

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Your link is dead, looks like they changed it after originally publishing

http://www.itnews.com.au/news/wa-grants ... ers-409017
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Re: WA grants major planning exemptions for towers

Post by roland985 »

Good. I'm sick and tired of useless idiots blocking necessary and required infrastructure.

The classic optus deadspot in Lesmurdie is a good example. Optus wanted to build a discreet tower to counter a fairly large area of no coverage. It was blocked by elderly residents citing EMF "health concerns". As unfounded as the claims are, Let's not forget that it is prudent to point out that a mobile handset will output far more power into your head to compensate for a lack of a nearby tower, and that the towers themselves output a lot less power than most people assume. (The hard work is done in the Antennas and physical height of the site.)

Every time anyone on an optus phone or any MVNO drives into the base of the hill, calls will immediately drop until they drive to the peak of the hill.

Hopefully situations like the above will be far less frequent.
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